In Africa, pregnant women and young children are the most vulnerable to malaria.
However, malaria control interventions and strategies have achivied important results in the last years.
COVID-19 has now made these interventions critical, and could undo the results obtained so far, as highlighted by scientists in the Lancet: https://bit.ly/2Tfyxwn.
Potentially, COVID-19 could indirectly cause more deaths than it already does directly, in the context of Africa’s weak and fragile health systems.
R-Evolution Worldwide had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with a great team of rappresentatives from the Ministries of Health of Benin and Togo in the research project proposal: “Impact of
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse recent progress in reducing the global burden of tuberculosis. The global number of deaths for tuberculosis could increase by around 200.000–400.000 in 2020 alone,
This year Lecce served as the host city for the Annual Meeting of our coordinated project IMVACS (Building multidisciplinary evidence to support Integrating Malaria VACcine with Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in